CMS Selects National Government Services To Administer Medicare Claims Payment - In Connecticut And New York (Medical News Today)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that National Government Services (NGS) has been awarded a contract of up to five years for the combined administration of Part A and Part B Medicare claims payment in Connecticut and New York.

Cancer patients covered only by Medicare face problems in getting chemotherapy (Muskogee Phoenix)
Federal Medicare cutbacks have put some cancer patients in a tough spot, said the chief executive officer at Oklahoma Oncology. Ken Butcher said Medicare-only patients seeking treatment at Muskogee Regional Cancer Center may have problems if they need chemotherapy.

Medicare Announces Expanded Coverage for Warfarin Patients Monitoring Clotting Time at Home (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Medicare Part B will now cover and pay for meter training, equipment and supplies for all long-term warfarin users who monitor their prothrombin time at home with a portable handheld meter.

Baucus proposal would block cuts in Medicare payments (Helena Independent Record)
As the clock ticks on a July 1 deadline for cutting Medicare payments to physicians by 10 percent, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., says he s crafting a solution to block the cuts and beef up payments to primary-care doctors.